Reserve Book List: go to Leyburn Library Circulation desk
Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. 2nd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983. See index for his thoughts on sympathy.
Delgado, Richard. The Coming Race War? And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America after Affirmative Action and Welfare. NYU P, 1996. 4-36. Critical Legal Studies approach.
E185.615 .D44
1996
Eisenberg,
Nancy and Janet Strayer, eds. Empathy and its Development. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987. Science Library BF575.E55 E453 1987
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“Empathy and Sympathy” Handbook of Emotions. Eds. Michael Lewis and Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones.
New York: Guilford P, 2000,
677-92. Science Library
BF561 .H35 2000
Feagin, Susan
L. Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. 83-142. Philosophical
approach. PN98.R38 F43 1996
Fish, Stanley. “Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics” in Tompkins, Jane, ed. Reader-Response Criticism, 70-100.
Fogle, R. H. and Jeffrey Barnouw. “Empathy and Sympathy.” The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Preminger and Brogran. NY: MJF Books, 1993. 331-2. Literary approach (applying to poetry).
PN1021 .N39
1993 Library Use Only: a reference book.
Goldman, Alvin I. Philosophical Applications of Cognitive Science. Focus Series. Boulder, CO: Westview P, 1993. 63-97, 140-152. Philosophy and cognitive science.
B945.G593
P55 1993
Harold, James. “Empathy with Fictions.” British Journal of Aesthetics 40:3 (July 2000): 340-55. Philosophical approach. Look this up in Annie by title: we have access to the on-line version of this journal.
Holland, Norman. The Dynamics of Literary Response. NY: Oxford UP, 1968. Pschoanalytic approach. Chapter 10, Character and Identification, 262-80; Chapter 11, Affect, 281-307. See also excerpt from Holland, “Unity Identity Text Self” I, Tompkins, ed., Reader-Response Criticism, 118-33.
PN49 .H64
Hume, David. (1739) A Treatise of Human Nature. Ed.with an analytical index by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Oxford: Clarendon P; New York: Oxford UP, 1978. 2d ed., with text rev. and variant readings by P. H. Nidditch. B1485 1978
Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978. See his comments on Ingarden. See also the excerpt from Iser, “The Reading Process,” in Tompkins, ed., Reader-Response Criticism, 50-69.
PN83 .I813
Konarzewski, Krzysztof. “Empathy and Protest: Two Roots of Heroic Altruism.” Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism. Ed. Pearl M. Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner et al. NY: NYU P, 1992. 22-9. Moral approach: what makes people altruistic?
D810.J4 E477
1992
Neil, Alex.
“Empathy and (Film) Fiction” in Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film
Studies. Eds. David Bordwell and Noël
Carroll. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996. 175-194. PN 1994 . P6565 1996.
Nell, Victor. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure. New Haven: Yale UP, 1988. A psychologist’s analysis of what we are doing when we read for pleasure.
Oliner, Samuel P. and Pearl M. The Altruistic Personality : Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe. NY: Free P, 1988.
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. NY: Knopf, 1993.
PN761 .S28
1993
Sherman, Nancy. “Empathy and Imagination.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, XXII (1998). Ed. Peter French and Howard Wettstein. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1998. 82-119. B105.E46 P48 1998
Smith. Adam. (1759). The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ed. D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie, Oxford: Clarendon P; New York: Oxford UP, 1976. BJ1005 .S6 1976
Thiongo, Ngugi wa. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. London: James Currey/Heinemann, 1986. “The Language of African Literature,” “The Language of African Fiction,” and “The Quest for Relevance.”
PL8010 .N48
1986
Tompkins, Jane, ed. Reader-Response Criticism: from Formalism to Post-Structuralism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980. Essays by Iser, Fish, Holland, and Tompkins especially useful.
PN98.R38 R4
Warhol, Robyn. Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1989. Chapters 2 and 3 on “engaging strategies.”
Wimsatt, W. K (and Monroe Beardsley). “The Affective Fallacy.” The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. Lexington, KY: U of Kentucky P, 1954.